101 Facts That Will Make You Want To Travel To South Africa

In this List, we will give you 101 Interesting Facts about South Africa:

• Christiaan Barnard was the first Doctor to perform the first human heart transplant in Cape Town in 1967.

• South Africa has The Rovos Rail, the world’s most luxurious train in The World.

• The Palace of the Lost City in South Africa is the world’s largest themed resort hotel in the world.

• South Africa hosts the world’s largest commercial Bungy jumping in the world which is 710 feet.
• A migration of South African fish is so large that it can be seen from outer space.
• South Africa has the cheapest electricity in the world.
• There was an apartheid government – white minority rule – in South Africa for nearly 50 years.
• South Africa is the world’s largest country with an HIV epidemic. It is said that one in five men is suffering from Aids in South Africa.
• South Africa is considered to have one of the most blue and beautiful sky in the world.
• In South Africa it is opposed by law if someone wears nothing but a bathing dress and sits next to any person of the opposite sex over 2 m.
• The official name of South Africa is the Republic of South Africa.
• The oldest meteoric scar in the world is in South Africa, the Vredefort Dome in a region that is called Parys.
• South Africa has the Largest Economy in the Continent of Africa
• South Africa is one of the most developed countries in Africa
• Cave paintings have been discovered in South Africa that date to about 75,000 years ago

• South Africa has three capital cities, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town.
• Drivers in South Africa use the left side of the road.
• Soccer, rugby and cricket are the most popular sports in South Africa.
• South Africa is the only country in Africa that has ever hosted the world cup which took place in 2010.
• Johannesburg is the biggest town in South Africa. Soweto and Durban are also major cities.
• South Africa has 11 official languages, which include: Afrikaans, Dutch, Ndebele, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa Zulu, and English
• The length of the coastline of South Africa reaches over 2500 kilometers (1553 miles).
• The Major Rivers in South Africa are Limpopo and Orange
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• South African brewery SABMiller is – by volume the world’s largest brewery. Up to 50% of China’s beer is also supplied by SAB Miller.

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• The world’s smallest (less than 0.39 inch) and largest (the baobab tree) sugar plants are found in South Africa.
• South Africa has a population of about 55 million people with a land area of about 1,219,089 square kilometers.
• According to the World Bank, South Africa has the highest income inequality in the world in 2019.
• South Africa is the largest macadamia nuts manufacturer in the world.
• According to the World Bank, South Africa has the highest income inequality in the world in 2019.
• The longest wine route in the world is in South Africa.
• The third biggest canyon in the world – and the largest green – is the Blyde River Canyon which is found in South Africa.
• In Soweto, the only street in the world that houses two Nobel Peace Prize winners. The Nobel Price Winners were Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

• Today, South Africa is the only nation worldwide to host a World Cup of Football, Cricket and Rugby.
• South Africa has: deserts, wetlands, grasslands, bush, subtropical forests, mountains and escarpments.
• The Table Mountain is considered to be one of the world’s oldest peaks and one of the world’s 12 major energy centers of magnetic, electrical or religious power radiating.
• The drinking water of South Africa is ranked as the 3rd best drinking water in the world.
• South Africa’s Cape Winelands have around 560 wineries and 4 400 primary producers
• South Africa is the only country in the entire world that has voluntarily abandoned its nuclear weapons program.
• South Africa’s mining and mineral riches are strong and considered the world leader with almost 90% of all earth’s platinum metals and around 41% of the world’s gold!
• Out of the South African Sea, there are over 2000 shipwrecks; the majority date from at least 500 years.
• Johannesburg has the largest man-made forest in the world. It has more than 10 million trees.
• Nearly 80% of the population of South Africa is Christian
• South Africa was the first African country to recognize same-sex marriage in 2006 and the fifth country in the world.
• The largest bicycle race in the world is in  South Africa and hosts 35,000 riders.
• South Africa is the largest producer of platinum in the world.
• At the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, on 25 January 1905, the world’s biggest diamond was discovered

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